The D Day Beaches

Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921746932

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D-Day Invasion by iMinds Pdf

The story behind D-Day begins in 1939 when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, attacked Poland and ignited World War Two. The following year, the Germans occupied France and Western Europe and launched a vicious air war against Britain. In 1941, they invaded the Soviet Union. Seemingly unstoppable, the Nazis now held virtually all of Europe. They imposed a ruthless system of control and unleashed the horror of the Holocaust. However, by 1943, the tide had begun to turn in favor of the Allies, the forces opposed to Germany. In the east, despite huge losses, the Soviets began to force the Germans back.

Author : Ken Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849087223

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D-Day 1944 (4) by Ken Ford Pdf

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Gold and Juno Beaches Landings Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings of British 50th Division on Gold Beach and Canadian 3rd Division on Juno Beach. Not only did they provide the vital link between the landings of British 3rd Division on Sword Beach and the Americans to the west on Omaha, they would be crucial to the securing of the beachhead and the drive inland to Bayeux and Caen. In the fourth D-Day volume Ken Ford details the assault that began the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926685700

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Juno Beach by Mark Zuehlke Pdf

On June 6, 1944 the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among this number were 18,000 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a wide expanse of sand. Code named Juno Beach. Here, sheltered inside concrete bunkers and deep trenches, hundreds of German soldiers waited to strike the first assault wave with some ninety 88-millimetre guns, fifty mortars, and four hundred machineguns. A four-foot-high sea wall ran across the breadth of the beach and extending from it into the surf itself were ranks of tangled barbed wire, tank and vessel obstacles, and a maze of mines. Of the five Allied forces landing that day, they were scheduled to be the last to reach the sand. Juno was also the most exposed beach, their day’s objectives eleven miles inland were farther away than any others, and the opposition awaiting them was believed greater than that facing any other force. At battle's end one out of every six Canadians in the invasion force was either dead or wounded. Yet their grip on Juno Beach was firm.

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926685953

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Holding Juno by Mark Zuehlke Pdf

Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland — the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during this longest day in history. But for all the horror endured on June 6 every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself. Although battered and bloody, the Canadians had held their ground and made it possible for the slow advance toward Germany and eventual Allied victory to begin. Holding Juno recreates this pivotal battle through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it, with the same dramatic intensity and factual detail that made Juno Beach, in the words of Quill & Quire reviewer Michael Clark, “the defining popular history of Canada’s D-Day battle.”

Author : Joseph Balkoski
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733777

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Utah Beach by Joseph Balkoski Pdf

The attack on Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion was one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken, especially bearing in mind the complexities of such a massive air & seaborne assault. Joseph Balkoski describes the unfolding drama.

Author : Georges Bernage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 2840484013

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The D-Day Landing Beaches by Georges Bernage Pdf

June 6, 1944. The Allies land in Normandy. Recalling first the build-up to D-Day, this guide goes on to describe the German defenses confronting the assault forces. Then, sector by sector, it gives a lively account of operations on each of the beaches. Each time the units and soldier involved are presented, along with the action taking them to their objectives of the day. This will enable visitors to locate and see all the major D-Day sights with the help of this accurate and lively text backed up with numerous maps and sketches, and present day photographs matched up with some of those taken by war correspondents.

Author : John Sadler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445644639

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D-Day by John Sadler Pdf

How British soldiers took Sword and Gold beaches on D-Day. This is the story of the British soldiers’ experience of the beach landings on that fateful morning - the spearhead of Operation Overlord.

Author : Jean-David Morvan,Séverine Tréfouël
Publisher : First Second
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781626726017

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Omaha Beach on D-Day by Jean-David Morvan,Séverine Tréfouël Pdf

The first volume of a new series dedicated to exploring iconic moments in World War II history, Omaha Beach on D-Day is a fresh and captivating new take on one of the most important moments in World War II: the Allied forces storming the beach at Normandy. The photograph at the heart of this book is Robert Capa's world-famous shot of the Allied landing in 1944, and the authors of this remarkable work have gathered interviews, testimonials, contact sheets, and over forty pages of photographic archives from the Magnum Photos agency to fill in the history behind a single moment, captured forever on film.

Author : Patrice Boussel
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday 1966.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : World War
ISBN : WISC:89000728600

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D-Day Beaches Revisited by Patrice Boussel Pdf

Beach-by-beach and landing-by-landing account of the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy on June 6, 1944, with seven suggested tours of the area.

Author : Peter Elstob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:560187168

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Warriors for the Working Day by Peter Elstob Pdf

Author : Lance Goddard
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550024920

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D-Day by Lance Goddard Pdf

Survivors. Vets. Comrades. A single day changed their lives forever. From the producer of the documentary Victory from Above, Lance Goddard's D-Day, Juno Beach: Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny is a montage of first-hand accounts, memories, and a pictorial archive of that day, sixty years ago. It captures all of the pride, patriotism, and collective will of Canadians who served and endured the horrific events of that day for a greater cause - for freedom, to defeat Hitler, to liberate Europe. From the beginning, at 0000 hours, to the end, 24 hours later, the voices of over thirty veterans unravel the battle with recollections, tactical details, and, often, self-effacing humour - but always at the very heart of Goddard's D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny, the message, sixty years later, is clear... lest we forget.

Author : Joseph Balkoski
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811741194

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Omaha Beach by Joseph Balkoski Pdf

Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. -- John Hillen, New York Post

Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000950339H

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The Geography and Map Division by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division Pdf

Author : Cornelius Ryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439126462

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The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan Pdf

The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. This book, first published in 1959, is a must for anyone who loves history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.

Author : Barrett Tillman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621573128

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D-Day Encyclopedia by Barrett Tillman Pdf

This unique encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Organized alphabetically, the entries give detailed descriptions of weapons, equipment, divisions, air and naval units, geography, terminology, personalities, and more. Every Allied division that crossed the English Channel on June 6, 1944 has its own listing as do the major Axis divisions that fought them. Brief biographies of major military and political leaders on both sides provide a handy who's who of the campaign. The book also includes entries for related popular culture: GI slang, the best movies about D-Day, and major writers such as Stephen Ambrose and Cornelius Ryan. Cross-references make the book easy to use. With hundreds of entries, The D-Day Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool for history buffs and great browsing for readers who want to know more about World War II.